A couple of years ago, Fox News wisp of hatred Laura Ingraham got all bent out of shape after future NBA Hall of Famer Lebron James and NBA All-Star Kevin Durant made disparaging comments about Donald Trump’s performance as president. At the time, while defending her liege Donald Trump from Lebron and Durant’s assertions that Trump used racist rhetoric, Ingraham attacked Lebron for being “barely intelligible and ungrammatical.” Her takeaway was that athletes like Lebron James and Kevin Durant should “shut up and dribble.”
As many people pointed out, Ingraham’s hot take here was not simply racist and condescending, it was hypocritical—Fox News is arguably best known for having people with zero bonafides for any given subject give their political opinions on those subjects all the time. Whether its Clint Eastwood or Jon Voigt or Chuck Norris or Ted Nugent talking about politics and climate change, Fox News almost uniformly only has people with the opposite of knowledge on any subject on their show to speak as experts on that subject.
Of course, when Ingraham’s strange vitriol against Black athletes was questioned by many, Ingraham made sure to tell everyone that she wasn’t a racist. It’s the rest of the media—and more specifically those to the left of the severe right-wing she represents—who are race baiting. So color me surprised when Ingraham decided to talk on Wednesday night about New Orlean’s Saints quarterback Drew Brees and the backlash he’s received for his tone deaf response to peaceful protests. Asked about whether he had rethought his stance against Colin Kaepernick’s quiet kneeling during the National Anthem protest, Brees doubled down, saying he would "never agree with anybody disrespecting the flag of the United States of America."
Needless to say this response is a remarkable bit of incoherence. Grammatically correct or not, Drew Brees is dumb as shit. But hey, maybe I’m being too hard on Drew. Let’s let Ingraham really go after him—I mean, he doesn’t get paid millions of dollars to tell me what to think about politics, right?
LAURA INGRAHAM: Well, he’s allowed to have his view on what kneeling and the flag means to him. I mean, he’s a person. He has some worth, I would imagine. This is beyond football though. This is totalitarian conduct. This is Stalinist.
From there, Ingraham lamented how protesters chanted: “Fuck Drew Brees.” Her guest—let’s call him mediocre white guy—who was brought in to offer no resistance, chimed in about how great a “Christian man” Drew Brees is. I guess this kind of Christian spirit doesn’t extend to loving thy Black neighbor.